Bruce Alberts to leave Science magazine

Facebook pays $550 million for patents. What should we call them, Brangelina-style? Facesoft? Microbook? Signs of Facebook and Microsoft's close ties emerged again yesterday, when the two companies jointly announced that Facebook would fork over $550 million to Microsoft to acquire many of the patents that the Redmond company had bought from AOL a few weeks ago for $1.065 billion.

Facebook pays $550 million for patents. What should we call them, Brangelina-style? Facesoft? Microbook? Signs of Facebook and Microsoft's close ties emerged again yesterday, when the two companies ...